Project Grant 80NSSC22K1799

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $313,950 Cooperative Agreement to the County of Solano Administrators Office to conduct a QL1 LiDAR data collection over the entire Solano County, California under the USGS National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817). This LiDAR project, which represents the first countywide QL1 data collection for Solano County, will provide high-resolution elevation data to support a variety of critical applications including fire monitoring,...

This $429,216 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) aims to investigate how previous managed wildfires influenced the extent, severity, and management tactics used on recent uncontrolled wildfires in the southern Sierra Nevada. The project has six key objectives: (1) identify the environmental factors that led to recent wildfires either burning over or stopping at the boundaries of...

This U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cooperative agreement (CFDA 15.674 National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance) provides $676,991 in funding to explore two applications of high-density LiDAR technology: Applying LiDAR vegetation data as inputs to the QUICFIRE fire behavior model to evaluate fuel treatment prescriptions and monitor model performance at management scales across priority landscapes in the U.S., including Alaska. Developing a LiDAR feature detection...

The Humboldt County Resource Conservation District was awarded a $5,027,427.40 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). The award, granted on December 7, 2023, supports the development of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan and implementation of wildfire mitigation projects for the Greater Willow Creek area in California. Key activities include conducting...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance (CFDA 15.674) program provides $300,000 to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization, to conduct fuels reduction and habitat restoration activities on 300 acres of land adjacent to the communities of Fort Jones, Etna, and Callahan, California. Key project activities include removing or thinning...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service R5-Pacific Southwest Region awarded a $9,997,998 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CFDA 10.720) to the Fire Safe Council of Siskiyou County, a non-profit organization, for the Siskiyou County Home Assessment and Defensible Space and Education Project. The grant funds the development of community wildfire protection plans, home risk assessments, creation of defensible space, and public education...

The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $114,998 Cooperative Agreement to Northern Arizona University under the USGS Research and Data Collection Program (CFDA 15.808) to test the utility of terrestrial LiDAR scanning (TLS) in estimating key wildfire fuels variables. The 2-year project will develop methods to estimate fuel load, vegetation cover, and vertical plant density from TLS data combined with other remote sensing sources. The researchers will establish field plots across different...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service awarded a $9,805,642 Project Grant under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720) to the Clear Lake Environmental Research Center, a non-profit organization, on November 20, 2023. The grant funds the development of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) and implementation of wildfire mitigation projects for Lake County, California. Specific activities include conducting...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, through the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), awarded a $490,274 Cooperative Agreement to Colorado State University. The goal of this multi-year project is to assess the tools, methodologies, and governance practices that can be used to mitigate the impacts of large wildfires in the western United States, such as watershed impairment and habitat recovery for critical species. The research will involve a literature review,...

This $1,775,414 federal Project Grant awarded on January 16, 2025 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731) aims to link small private landowners in Northern California to carbon markets and promote wildfire resilience practices. The grant recipient, the Fall River Resource Conservation District, will use the funding to provide technical assistance, cost-sharing, and support for underserved...